Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Fediverse vs Disinformation@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 7 days agoIs it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?hexbear.netimagemessage-square105linkfedilinkarrow-up1680arrow-down17
arrow-up1673arrow-down1imageIs it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?hexbear.netUnruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Fediverse vs Disinformation@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square105linkfedilink
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up55·7 days agoi bet none of them would answer the same way if you asked them what a 3rd world country is
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up67·7 days agoNo chance that more than a fourth of them realize it’s from the Cold War and originally mean nations that were neither in the sphere of Soviet or American interest. They just think it means poor country with brown people
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·7 days agoThe Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric …
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoWell, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoThe countries still exist … in one form or another
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 days agoBut the alliances don’t, which is where the term came from. If you’re going to get pedantic about it, it’s odd to be so selective.
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·7 days agoYeah, I’m the one being pedantic, gas light much?
minus-squareteamevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 days agoI thought it just meant no nuclear weapons
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 days agoI believe that would exclude Canada, Aus, and NZ which are pretty firmly considered first world.
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minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 days agoSecond World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.
minus-squareshawn1122@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn’t be the ones who chose to call themselves ‘first world’ right? Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.
i bet none of them would answer the same way if you asked them what a 3rd world country is
Kind of the point
No chance that more than a fourth of them realize it’s from the Cold War and originally mean nations that were neither in the sphere of Soviet or American interest. They just think it means poor country with brown people
The Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric …
Well, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.
The countries still exist … in one form or another
But the alliances don’t, which is where the term came from. If you’re going to get pedantic about it, it’s odd to be so selective.
Yeah, I’m the one being pedantic, gas light much?
I thought it just meant no nuclear weapons
I believe that would exclude Canada, Aus, and NZ which are pretty firmly considered first world.
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Second World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.
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I wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn’t be the ones who chose to call themselves ‘first world’ right?
Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.